Judith Kegan Gardiner

Judith Kegan Gardiner has been an editor of Feminist Studies since 1989. A professor of English and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago, she earned an M.A. (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) in English from Columbia University and A.B. (1962) from Radcliffe College.

Dr. Gardiner's teaching interests include feminist and psychoanalytic theory, twentieth-century writing by women, seventeenth-century English literature, feminist pedagogy, sexuality and gender, and masculinity studies. Her current research focuses on masculinity in feminist theory. Her edited book, Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice (University of Illinois Press) appeared in 1995, and her new edited book, Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New Directions (Columbia University Press) was published in 2002. Her article, "Why Saddam is Gay: Masculinity Politics in South Park -- Bigger, Longer, and Uncut," appeared in the December 2004 issue of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

Dr. Gardiner is one of the original founders of the Gender & Women's Studies Program at UIC. She is Director of the Gender and Women Studies program and co-chair, with Gwen Duffin, of the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women.